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What is the equation for photosynthesis and what is the product used for?

Equation: carbon dioxide + water ---(with light energy)---> glucose + oxygen Glucose is the important product of the photosynthesis reaction. Some of the glucose is used in respiration to provide energy f...
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What is crossing over?

Crossing over is a process that happens during meiosis and results in genetic variation in gametes. It happens between prophase and metaphase. Pairs of homologous chromosomes lined up next to each other touc...
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What are the similarities and differences between photophosphorylation and oxidative phosphorylation?

Both processes operate on the same basic principle; passing electrons down a chain in order to create a proton (H + ) gradient , allowing the formation of ATP . The biggest difference is where they occur. Ph...
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Explain the causes and consequences of sickle cell anaemia (5)

Sickle cell anaemia is caused by a point mutation, exchanging adenine for thymine in the DNA codon CTC. This causes a change in the mRNA to GUG, which results in a change in the polypeptide sequence during p...
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Explain the process of semi-conservative DNA replication.

The enzyme DNA helicase breaks the hydrogen bonds between the two polynucloetide DNA strands causing the double helix to unzip, forming two single strands. Each original single strand then acts as a template...
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